Year's end, file size an issue?

[Fred Bone]

On 28 January 2010 at 12:05, David T. said:

> Mike--
> 
> That is how I have solved the situation in the past. The main problem with
> this (which I implied but did not outright state in my original reply) is
> that there is no easy way to tell Gnucash to omit January first in
> reports. You have to manually change the date each time. This is not
> odious, but it is annoying. There is no "Previous Year Starting on January
> 2nd" option for the date range. And yes, you can always save the report
> with a January 2nd start date, but each year, you'd have to edit the date
> anyway.
> 
> Additionally, the zeroing transactions completely throw off any
> longer-term reports, which effectively eliminates the reason why you'd
> keep multiple years' data in the first place--that is, to get longterm
> trends on different accounts.

So why not just delete them temporarily?